Step-cover for railway-coach vestibules.



T. .H. KANE & A. J. URTUBEES. STEP COVER FOR RAILWAY COACH VBSTIBULES APPLI'OATION FILED DBO.11,1905.

Patented Sept. 29, 1908.

ITED STATES OFFICE.

' THOMAS H. KANE AND ALFRED J. URTUBEES, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

STEP-COVER FOR RAILWAY-COACH VESTIBULES.

Application filed December 11, 1905. Serial No. 291,277.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, THOMAS H. KANE and ALFRED J. URTUBEEs, citizens of the United States, and residents of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ste -Covers for Railway- Coach Vestibules; an we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Our invention relates to sliding ste -covers in connection with swinging vestibu e doors of railway-coaches, and has for its object to simplify and cheapen construction as wellas insure perfect working of said covers under all ordinary conditions; said invention consisting in what is hereinafter particularly set forth with reference to the. accompanying drawin s and pointed out in the claims, es ecia attention being directed to the peculiar novel connection of the vestibule door and step-cover herein shown.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents an end elevation of a fragment of a railway-coach vestibule and an application of our invention, this view being partly in section on the lanes indicated by lines 11 in Fig. 3 Fig. 2, a side elevation of what is shown in Fig. 1, partly in section on the lane indicated by line 22 in the same gure, and Fi 3, a plan view of said fragment of the railway-coach inverted and in horizontal section on the plane indicated by lines 3-3 in Fi 1.

Referrin by letter to the drawings, A indicates the p atform of a railway-coach vestibule, B the steps and O a hinged outer door,

of the vestibule that is ordinarily closed and locked when the coach is moving as part of a railway train. The usual steps B to the platform are shown, and the step-well is closed from the outside by the doorO, the bottom. of same in closed position being below the vestibule platform. I

Various means have beendevised to open and close the step-well relativelywith the opening or closing of the vestibule-door, and it is 01 in the 'art to employ a sliding stepcover in connection with such a door to be actuated by the same, but heretofore the connection of the two has been such as to Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 29, 1908.

necessitate a slide block or roller in an underside channel-bar or slot of the tep-cover, the same being complicated, expensive and not satisfactory under all conditions to which vestibuled railway-coaches are subjected.

In carrying out our invention we provide crossbeams of the coach-body with parallel angle-iron strips D, that extend parallel to the aforesaid platform directly under the same and the whole width of the step-well to constitute sup orting guides for a sliding step-cover E t at is connectedby a link F with the aforesaid door. One end of the link is pivoted on a stud a, at a fixed point of the underside of the step-cover E and said link extends diagonally across said step-cover when the door C is closed. The other end of the link is pivotally connected to a bracket 6 mortised in the outer or swing edge of the door, and said door being swung inward to open the vestibule, the step-cover is pushed back by the link F under the platform A, said door, link and step-cover being then alined transversely of the coach.

From the foregoing it will be understood that when the door 0 is closed the step-cover is drawn snug against the depending portion of said door to shut out weather and dust, while at the same time the pivotal connection of the link F at a fixed point of the stepcover simplifies and chea ens the mechanism for the operation of sai step-cover by said door and insures of this operation under all the various conditions to which the coach is liable to be subjected.

We claim:

1. In a railway-coach having a vestibule and providedwith guides extending under the vestibule-platform, the combination of a sliding step-cover supported by the guides, a

swinging vestibule-door, and a link in pivotal connection with the underside of the stepcover at a fixed oint and likewise connected to the door, the ink being diagonally of said step-cover when said door is closed but alined therewith and the door when the latter is 2. In a railway-coach having a vestibule and provided with guides extending under the vestibule-platform, a sliding step-cover supported by the guides, a swinging vestibule door, a bracket Inortised in the swinging in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisedge of the vestibule-door, and a link in pivconsin in the presence of two Witnesses.

otal connection at its ends With the bracket THOMAS H. KANE. and the underside of the step-cover at a ALFRED J. URTUBEES. 5 fixed point. Witnesses:

In testimony that we claim the foregoing G120. W. YOUNG,

e have hereunto set our hands at Milwaukee FRED PALM. 

